Dust Bowl Research Project

    Listed below are multiple resources for you to use in your research.  You can use Noodletools to create your bibliography.  Remember, for noodletools your login is your student id number and your password is wildcats.

    Subscription Databases

    History Resource Center US
    SIRS Decades 
    Proquest Historical Newspapers 

    Encyclopedias

    Encyclopedia Britannica - Click on Middle School and then search for your topic.
    World Book Online - Select World Book Student

    Websites

    Photographs
    Photographs from the Great Depression to WWII - From the Library of Congress
    Dust Bowl Photographs - From Kansas State University
    Great Depression Photographs - From About.com
    Information
    Life in the 1930s -Contains information on the stock market crash of 1929, farming foreclosures, FDR and the New Deal
    American History 1930-1939 -Contains information on the dust bowl, music from the 1930s
    The Dust Bowl - An article written about the dust bowl by a professor at Southwest Minnesota State University
    National Steinbeck Center - Provides information on Steinbeck and his novel, The Grapes of Wrath
    Franklin Roosevelt - An article from the White House's website about Roosevelt's years as president.
    Stock Market Crash - An brief article from PBS about the Crash of 1929 
    Karen Hess Biography-  From Kidsread.com